INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1938, Page 2

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, October 31. “These cases are becoming too prevalent again,” said Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today, when hearing a charge of intoxication in charge of a car. Senior-Sergeant G. H Lambert described it as a particularly serious one, as accused, Leo Francis Thorborn, aged 21, bushman, Pukekohe, was almost intoxicated to a degree which would have warranted an arrest for drunkenness in a public place. “It was not the beer in the car,” said Mr Patterson, when accused said he had -only two bottles with him, “but the beer that was in you that was the fault.” Accused was convicted and sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and his driver’s licence cancelled until June 30, 1940.

SHEARER FINED £l5. ASHBURTON, October 31. John Drysdale, aged 21, shearer, of Alexandra, was fined £l5, in default a month’s hard labour, on a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a car. Defendant, it was stated, visited his grandfather in the North Island and was given an old car, which he drove to Wellington on Friday. On arriving in the South Island he avoided Christchurch, drmking at hotels en route. At Hinds he collided with a culvert indicator and, proceeding on, hit a telegraph pole, bringing down the lines. A pedestrian whom he picked up on the road was also arrested for drunkenness.